Upcoming Colloquium
Student Research Presentations
May 3 & 5, 2021
11:00am via Zoom
Faculty, staff, alumni, and students of the department will automatically receive a weekly Zoom invitation via email. All others may sign up to receive a weekly invitation.
Students enrolled in PHYS 691, 697, 698 and 496 will present their research progress and achievements. Other students will present research updates and readings from their semester.
The Colloquium is a unique opportunity for students to learn about new developments in physics and what physicists do after they graduate. Hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University Long Beach, the weekly meetings invite guests from universities, research laboratories, and industry to present and discuss current topics in physics. All students are encouraged to attend for a well-rounded experience and training in physics.
Schedule
The Spring 2021 colloquia will start on January 25.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2021 | Student Research Presentations I | Students, CSU Long Beach |
| May 5, 2021 | Student Research Presentations II | Students, CSU Long Beach |
Previous Colloquia
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 26, 2021 | Bringing Physics into the Fold: from origami fashion to atomic origami for micro-scale robots | Dr. Itai Cohen, Cornell University |
| April 19, 2021 | How Do You Make a Binary Black Hole? | Dr. Carl Rodriguez, Carnegie Mellon University |
| April 12, 2021 | Transient Spatiotemporal Chaos | Dr. Renate Wackerbauer, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| April 5, 2021 | The Trouble with Traditional Physics Labs | Dr. Natasha Holmes, Cornell University |
| March 26, 2021 | Shaken is Different: Out-of-equilibrium Quantum Matter | Dr. Martin Rodriguez-Vega, University of Texas, Austin |
| March 24, 2021 | What is the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect? | Dr. Benjamin Fregoso, Kent University |
| March 22, 2021 | The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter | Dr. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT |
| March 17, 2021 | Moiré Materials and Incommensurability-driven Phases in Two-dimensions | Dr. Justin Wilson, Rutgers University |
| March 15, 2021 | Electron and Photon Impact Induced Processes in Molecules | Dr. Samantha Fonseca, Rollins College |
| March 8, 2021 | Frontier of quantum computation and quantum machine learning | Dr. Murphy Niu, Google AI Quantum |
| March 1, 2021 | Magnetohydrodynamics and Convection in Accretion Disks: From Dwarf Novae to Luminous Quasars | Dr. Omer Blaes, UC Santa Barbara |
| February 22, 2021 | Power at the Nanoscale: Speed, Strength and Efficiency in Biological Motors | Dr. Carlos Bustamante, UC Berkeley |
| February 15, 2021 | Reverberation Mapping Black Hole Accretion Flows | Dr. Erin Kara, MIT |
| February 8, 2021 | Emerging Electrical and Optical Properties from the 2D Wonderland | Dr. Long Ju, MIT |
| February 1, 2021 | Magnetism meets mesoscopics: Synthetic spin hamiltonians in nanoscale devices | Dr. Takis Kontos, Laboratorie de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France |
| January 25, 2021 | High Magnetic Fields: a "magnifying glass" to spy on what electrons do! | Dr. Paula Giraldo-Gallo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia |
The Colloquium Archive has the Colloquia from previous semesters.
Sponsors
We acknowledge with gratitude donations and support from the following present sponsors:
- H.E. and H.B. Miller and Family Endowment
- Benjamin Carter
- American Physical Society
- Anonymous
We also acknowledge with gratitude our past donors: The Forty-Niner Shops, Inc., The Northrop Grumman Foundation, Sandra Dana, Anonymous.
If you wish to support the Colloquium, please contact the colloquium coordinator or the department chair. Thank you!